Probably they did register harvard.sucks as well :-) --c.a. On 26-03-15 14:23, Seun Ojedeji wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > I am just curious as to what you think NCSG or even ICANN should do > about this. .porn is basically a name and it's sgTLDs does not come up > on the screen unless it's being promoted. It's the freedom experience > using the internet; one man's food could be another man's poison... it > doesn't mean we should stop supply of the food. > > The institution where I work for instance has a lot of other sites at > .com, .net et all which are not registered by the institution. We > however have a disclaimer on our official website indicating that our > official TLD is "edu.ng". I don't think Harvard's approach is really > necessary, otherwise they should be ready spend a lot of USD in > maintaining those domains and registering new ones.... harvard.sucks > could still be a target ;-) > > Cheers! > > sent from Google nexus 4 > kindly excuse brevity and typos. > > On 26 Mar 2015 18:01, "Carlos Afonso" <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > A terrible result of a new gTLDs' policy devoid of anti-extortion > clauses. Hundreds of new gTLDs whose business model is based on $$$ > gained with almost forceful preemptive registration... All in name > of a neoliberal credo defending no restrictions for new domains. And > we (NCSG/NCUC) have been mute on this. > > Aren't the victims of this extortion a case for our human rights > advocacy? > > --c.a. > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [ PFIR ] Harvard registers harvard.porn > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:55:42 -0700 > From: PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List > <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> > Reply-To: PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement > List <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> > To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > > Harvard registers harvard.porn > > http://www.bostonglobe.com/__metro/2015/03/25/harvard-__moves-protect-its-name-__reserving-harvard-porn-domain/__Ee7P8m1zS9dDMGg69FakXL/story.__html > <http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/25/harvard-moves-protect-its-name-reserving-harvard-porn-domain/Ee7P8m1zS9dDMGg69FakXL/story.html> > > In an effort to keep outsiders from corrupting their > trademarks, area > colleges are snapping up controversial domain names like > ".porn" and > ".adult" before they are available to the public for purchase this > summer. > > - - - > > And what are they going to do about harvard-porn.com > <http://harvard-porn.com> and > harvardporn.com <http://harvardporn.com> and harvardporn.org > <http://harvardporn.org> and harvard-porn.org > <http://harvard-porn.org> and ... > > --Lauren-- > Lauren Weinstein ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>): > http://www.vortex.com/lauren > Founder: > - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org > - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-__info > <http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info> > Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: > http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info > Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy > Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com > Google+: http://google.com/+__LaurenWeinstein > <http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/__laurenweinstein > <http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein> > Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 <tel:%2B1%20%28818%29%20225-2800> / Skype: > vortex.com <http://vortex.com> > > _________________________________________________ > pfir mailing list > http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/__listinfo/pfir > <http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir> >